Saturday, February 26, 2011

I thought I would show you some of my favorite tea cups I found while cleaning the other day.

Speaking of favorites, I was picked, well not me, but my cabinets were picked by Marian from Miss Mustard Seed for her Furniture Feature Friday-Favorites yesterday, you can read it here.

The only credit I can take for the cabinets is that I bought them and took the pictures. A friend of mine, an amazing craftsman made all of the cabinets. He does an incredible job with his painting to make a piece of furniture look authentically old.

This is one of the signs he painted.

I am off to continue working on cleaning out the office, but before I go, if you have not signed up for my giveaway, a chance to win a gift certificate for CSN stores then please go here. The giveaway ends on February 28th.

Friday, February 25, 2011

GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED!A few months back I won a CSN giveaway﻿ and I bought this amazing clock with my gift certificate!

Well, now it's YOUR TURN!

Last week while I was supposed to be cleaning my office or "blog room," I was actually checking out some blogs for some decorating ideas. Yeah, that's it, I was doing research.
Well, anyway, I got distracted and ended up on CSN in search of some OFFICE FURNITURE .

A few of these bookcases to store some of my craft supplies and books.

Don't you just love this desk! I don't need one, but I just could not resist showing this beauty.

It is called The Bag Lady's Recipe Writing Desk-Paula Deen Home, I found it in the desk section at CSN.

I think I might be able to write up some tasty posts sitting at this desk. Just look at those adorable wheels!

I think they knew I was visiting, because soon after I received an email with an offer for me to have a GIVEAWAY!

Well, "of course" I said.

So now you have a chance to WIN $40.00 gift certificate for CSN.

Now, be honest, could your office use a little picking up or are you stuffing it ALL in the CLOSET?

You KNOW who you are!

I am going to make it as easy as possible for you.

For the 1st chance to enter, stop by CSN office furniture and then come back and tell me if you prefer open shelving or bookcases.

For a 2nd chance to enter, leave a comment letting me know; is your office or blogging area neat or is it in need of some tidying.

We were happy, oh so happy, to be finally be able to be together forever!

I, honestly tried to get him to elope, but he resisted.

You see, at the time we were planning our wedding, we were also in the process of building our DREAM HOME.

STRESS!

Those of you who have done either or both know how much time and energy it takes, try doing both at the same time, and we both had full time, demanding jobs.

Each year we sit and reminisce about that day and all that happened in the days that lead up to THE DAY.

I will share a funny story.

First I have to tell you that I was living with my parents before I was married, on the farm.

Well, as has happened many times before, the cows got out.

Normally, my father would have been outside puttering around in one of the barns, but seeing as we were all inside preparing for the BIG DAY, the cows had wandered farther than usual.

In fact, they had crossed the road.

What did we do? Well, of course we donned our boots and ran after them!

Remember, this is February in BUFFALO and the weather was not at its' most pleasant.

I can still remember standing in the field laughing and talking to my little sister while my father yelled at us about what we should be doing. I remember her saying "so, did you ever think you would be chasing cows on your wedding day?" "Nope!"

We spent a good hour herding the cows back home into the barns.

So now we will always have a funny story to tell our children when they ask about our wedding.

The ceremony was beautiful!

We will never forget

THE SHOES!

It seems that my brother-in-law got a hold of the groom's shoes and wrote

YES DEAR

on the bottom of his shoes in white paint.

We did not find out until during the ceremony and we were on our knees for prayer.

LAUGHTER

rang through the church!

I think it is a good way to start a marriage,

lots of laughter.

At our reception I will always remember how wonderful our wedding cake was. My aunt made our cake as a wedding gift. I had picked out the design, white roses, it was to be covered in white roses. It was just as beautiful as I had pictured it in my mind. I must also mention my dress, it too was beautiful, my mother made it by hand, each stitch, right up until I walked down the hallway to go down the aisle. It was some cause of the stress I was under. In the final moments though it was beautiful and it still hangs in my closet as a reminder of my mother.

We danced and danced most of the night.

Even more special, he sang.

My husband sang our wedding song to me while we danced.

Singing to me is something he has done since the day we met and still does.

Our children think it is funny when daddy sings and dances with mommy in the kitchen, but to us it is

ROMANCE!

You might think that being married on Valentine's Day makes our anniversary even more special.

BUT

It's not, I would rather be told and shown every day that I am loved, than to receive gifts on one day.

I told a friend that to me romance is not flowers and candy.

Romance is knowing, knowing what makes the love of your life-laugh.

It is cooking dinner when the other is late at work.

It is letting them sleep-even if it means you sleep on the couch.

It is being courteous, kind, loving even when you don't feel like it at the moment.

It is making sure to give a kiss even when you are mad.

It is the details that matter, because in the end they are what you remember.﻿

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Our anniversary happens to fall on the biggest day the whole world celebrates love and romance.

We tend to keep it low key.

I am not much of a jewelery person so he doesn't buy me jewels.

As for flowers, we both would rather it be a plant that I can put into the ground and it is way too early for that. The chocolates, he lets me buy for the kids and we sneak a few.

So, how do we show our love?

Simple ways.

XOXO XOXO

Always a kiss before we leave each other.

A look across the room that lets you know exactly what he means.

Smooching in the closet where the kids can't find mom and dad.

Brushing snow off both cars when he is leaving for work.

Letting me paint yet ANOTHER room white.

Love notes in the lunch box, just because.

Random acts of showing love.

Never forgetting to say

I LOVE

YOU!

I also wanted to say thank you for all the kind words for my previous posts.

As for my pillows, only the red heart is a pillow, the other two are paper mache hearts that are one sided. The button heart I painted the heart white and hot glued lots and lots of buttons on. I have had the hearts many years and I think I originally bought them at a craft store.

About Me

I am lucky to be married to a wonderful man whom I am totally in love with. We have three adorable children who make us laugh daily, two cats and one dog. We were lucky enough to build our dream home that is filled full of love, laughter and my collections. I am loving all things white, and I believe you can always make treasures even better with some white paint. I have owned my own shop and I loved every process it involved, and one day I may want to do it again with the right partner. I try to live my life with no regrets and I believe that everything happens for a reason and to pay attention to the signs we are sent.